Letter: LTN crossed the line

To the community,

I teach at STHS but would have the same reaction if that were not the case: it seems beyond unethical and irresponsible to toss in that little reference at the end of the Kushner piece linking this situation even remotely to the Gronwald situation. I’m left wondering why? What does that serve to leave that kind of association to a man by all appearances who is being victimized rather than victimizing?

As an experienced writer, you well know the effect of such associations and should be ashamed of such a tactic. Does it serve any value even bringing up a long-ago-settled matter in the first place? I wonder at the editorializing motive here and consider if worse than unprofessional. Put yourself for a moment in his shoes: somebody levels an attack at you; an article is then written about it with a reference to other prosecuted and convicted journalists in the past? In what way exactly does that make sense or rise to any sort of journalistic standard?

Mike Filce, South Tahoe High School teacher